Posts tagged Service Disruption
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Breakfast links: Derailed
A bad derailment; The battle over Westbard; Transit for Tobytown; Office oversupply; Reconsidering DC’s ‘burbs; Keeping the space in AdMo; Sidwell friends or enemies?; Young and ready to build. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Comings and goings
Why people leave; Where the kids are; Welcome the millennials; Fixing the freeway problem; Tragedy at Metro station, again; WMATA (HQ) for sale; Largo hospital is more likely; How Purple got cheaper; And…. Keep reading…
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BREAKING: Metrorail will shut down completely Wednesday(!)
The entire Metro rail system will shut down from midnight Tuesday night to 5 am Thursday morning. Workers will inspect and replace the kinds of cables that caused Monday’s fire. Keep reading…
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Metro will run bare-bones service Monday; local officials urge people to stay off the roads
Metro will run extremely, extremely limited (and free) service Monday. Meanwhile, local jurisdictions are working to plow roads, and DC is recruiting people to help shovel sidewalks. What do you think of the region’s snow recovery efforts? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Snowlock
No salt, no service; Snow status; Metro steadies for snow; No veto for I-66; Know thy neighborhood; Trail for Fort Lincoln?; Online underground; Middle-sized housing is missing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ride a mile
In riders’ shoes; Metro-oriented development?; VA’s transportation priorities; Vision Zero in Montgomery; Too much trash; Soccer schemes; Affordable in Virginia; The risk of walking; And…. Keep reading…
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Bad Metro reliability is driving riders away. WMATA has a few ideas to get them back.
The long season of debate about WMATA budgets, fares, and service has begun, and like too many years in the last decade, the agency faces a budget crunch. Today, the agency released its first budget proposal which includes some proposals that will interest riders. The agency is now agreeing with something riders have been saying for some time: Poor maintenance and other bad customer… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take me to your leader
A new GM, again; Stadium-Armory progress; Here comes the highway bill; Future DC is all TOD; It’s all about the beer; Unemployement inequality; A morbid map. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Opportunity knocks
DC homeowners; Landowners win; Defending the Poor Door; Not in my (former) back yard; WMATA inspectors wanted; Powered by Metro; Tolls ahead; Bi-county support for HOT lanes; New rides for MPD; Dude, where’s my streetcar?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s fair?
Frequency doesn’t equal fares; No public trust for big projects; Urban farming’s DC debut; Fee for PG; Bike in MD; A home built for bikes; Graduation rates up in DC; Inclusionary density for SF; And…. Keep reading…